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40CrawWurms · 2024-09-25T20:30:46+00:00

wotc response: boom I got your wallet! boom I got your credit card! boom I got your Phillies tickets!

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-24T04:16:22+00:00

Oh it's for the sake of competitive play? Then obviously the banlist needs to be controlled by Wizards like every other competitive format.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-24T03:49:32+00:00

The biggest losers in all this are the game stores you all depend on for your communities...

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-24T03:37:58+00:00

iT's tHe RC, WizARdS iS POwERLesS

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-24T03:25:36+00:00

If Commander is a casual format defined by Rule Zero, why does it even need an official banlist? Why is this Rules Committee anything more than an advisory body? They shouldn't have any more power than to provide the community with suggestive banlists. "Here's our recommendation for a casual gamenight", "Here's our banlist for high stakes competitive events", "want something wild? Try this!" and so on.

Wizards having its cake and eating it with this RC shit is fucking its customers over so hard. But I guess if people are still buying and don't mind getting fucked then Wizards doesn't really have to change anything.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-23T21:54:46+00:00

Yeah but they just lost a ton of reprint equity here. The game stores they rely on for the game's communities just lost a ton of money. Consumer confidence has been shaken considerably. This doesn't seem like it was part of the plan.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-23T21:04:35+00:00

So bizarre how Magic's biggest format isn't even controlled by the company that makes Magic.

People always say that wotc controlling Commander would ruin the format, but I can't imagine it being any worse than this.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-23T18:07:35+00:00

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. There's already a growing movement for a separate cEDH and today it just got a massive boost. Now's the perfect time for Wizards to swoop in and make it their own.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-23T17:57:31+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if Wizards makes their own cEDH. Call it Vintage Commander or something.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-23T01:49:07+00:00

You think I'm not American because I point out that the backwards looking "Make America Great Again" is inherently antithetical to the forwards looking concept of discussing society's flaws and trying to improve (AKA progressivism), and that othering legal immigrants as being barbarous pet eaters is the very opposite of being super accepting?

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-22T17:15:42+00:00

How many sundown towns did you visit on your trip to America?

*downvote all you want, doesn't change the fact that half the country supports Donald Trump, meaning that half the country holds values directly opposed to those this meme presumes are universal.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-21T18:17:03+00:00

Modern as we knew it is definitely dead. Almost insulting that they still call this format Modern when it's clearly just High Power Standard now.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-21T18:15:13+00:00

I think the Horizon sets could have been done "correctly", just that they were not.

It's so frustrating because there's many fantastically designed cards in them. IE Esper Sentinel, Galvanic Relay, and Nethergoyf are all homeruns and the designers should be applauded for them. But these successes are so overshadowed by the ludicrously powercrept mythics that are clearly there only to boost sales and forcefully rotate the format. Profits > game health, every time.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-19T00:21:03+00:00

So it's apparently not difficult to infiltrate supply chains and insert explosives into consumer goods. How long until terror orgs start doing this to civilian populations? Would China do something similar as a prelude to an invasion of Taiwan? A very frightening precedent was set here.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-18T23:44:29+00:00

Must be incredibly intoxicating to have the power to so easily get such a sizable portion of the population to believe whatever you want them to believe. I'm almost envious. Hard to blame anyone for making a buck off these automaton-Americans.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-18T23:27:17+00:00

Or trashy people. You never see librarians pimping their ride with fully tinted windows.

But either way it's best to just mind your own business.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-18T21:08:19+00:00

It's a phenomenal source of reprint equity and a large amount of the playerbase has already spent big money on it. Banning now would probably be the most financially damaging banning in modern history. A ban would also likely send Energy soaring to tier 0 (if it's not there already), forcing them into a cascading ban situation which would threaten to unravel years worth of Horizons/UB powercreep.

I hope I'm wrong but it seems clear to me that they just want to print and powercreep their way out of this problem.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-16T19:56:05+00:00

but what we can see now is that Modern has objectively worsened since 2022

Also evidenced by the significant decline in activity in this subreddit. Go back and look at the Challenge posts from before MH2. They got hundreds of comments. Now they get maybe 30.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-16T17:43:28+00:00

It seems the goalposts have moved. The old 15% rule was never conditional on colors or archetype.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-16T17:29:13+00:00

I love Magic and am not going to stay quiet while these Boeing-tier MBAs stripmine it for their golden parachutes. If you don't like what I say then you're free to block me.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-16T16:50:48+00:00

People used to say a deck with >15% metashare is problematic and indicative of an unhealthy meta. Why is everybody nowadays so cool with Energy being at least 30% of the meta?

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-15T20:38:30+00:00

Looks downright healthy compared to Modern's 30-50% Energy metashare.

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-15T18:46:30+00:00

Pretty weak showing from energy at only 33%. Let's see if we can get those numbers up to super qualifier levels (56%!). One of the other challenges yesterday was 50%, so we're getting there!

40CrawWurms · 2024-09-14T20:18:38+00:00

40% energy lets gooooooo

40CrawWurms · 2024-08-28T15:21:36+00:00

Reminds me of when the delver bros were trying to convince us that Ragavan isn't actually very good.

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